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Douglas County boy, 8, wants to live as a girl
denver post ^ | 2/8/2008 | Anne Schrader

Posted on 02/08/2008 10:12:20 AM PST by redrunner

The parents of an 8-year-old boy who wants to live and be treated as a girl have been working with the Douglas County School District to allow their child to attend school as a girl.

The child attended the unnamed school two years ago, and the family and the district have been talking since last fall about the child re-enrolling, said district spokeswoman Whei Wong.

"The discussion has been how best to do it," Wong said Thursday. The goal, she said, is "to ensure the kid feels safe physically and emotionally and other kids don't feel threatened in any way."

Wong said some parents have contacted school officials asking for clarification and direction. "Some parents are really concerned and freaked out about it."

A concerned parent, who asked not to be identified, told 9News, "I see this as being a very difficult situation to explain to my daughter . . . why someone would not want to be the gender they were born with."

A national nonprofit group, TransYouth Family Advocates, has provided assistance in handling the situation.

Transgender children, who are born as one sex and identify with the other, are not uncommon but are not understood by parents and society, TransYouth president Shannon Garcia said.

Parents "don't understand this is a health condition. They don't know why their children are like this, and they don't know where to find help," she said.

Society fears "what they don't understand," she said. "Gender identification and sexual orientation are two very different things."

Laura Thor, a Denver licensed clinical social worker, said parents of transgender children "are relying on the goodness and tolerance of the rest of the public to respond to this child favorably."

Schoolmates and their parents need help in becoming less uncomfortable with the child's looking different and being called by a different name, Thor said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: disorders; genderiddisorder; homeschoolingisgood; homosexualagenda; psychology; transgender
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To: N3WBI3

This is wong!


21 posted on 02/08/2008 10:29:29 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: redrunner

This crap scares me even more then the homo indoctrination (yes yes I know its related). I really home my wife and I will be able to home school..


22 posted on 02/08/2008 10:29:52 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: redrunner

This is one smart kid. Learned early it’s better to be part of a protected class. If he was really smart he would’ve said he wants to be a black girl.

Oh yeah, /sarc


23 posted on 02/08/2008 10:30:35 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: N3WBI3

This is way wong!


24 posted on 02/08/2008 10:30:47 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: redrunner
The goal, she said, is "to ensure the kid feels safe physically and emotionally and other kids don't feel threatened in any way."

Not going to happen. The other kids know he's a boy already. Kids, in their wonderfully concrete thinking patterns, are not going to buy this. They're just going to think the adults are crazy and this kid, too.

25 posted on 02/08/2008 10:31:04 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: redrunner
“Douglas County boy, 8, wants to live as a girl”

I guess that’s better than thinking he is a salamander. That may be next week.

But seriously, where are the parents in this? No real parent would put up with this nonsense.

26 posted on 02/08/2008 10:31:29 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I think you have your rines clossed.


27 posted on 02/08/2008 10:31:37 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: redrunner

TransYouth Family Advocates,....

Who makes this stuff up?


28 posted on 02/08/2008 10:32:03 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Rines still clossed.


29 posted on 02/08/2008 10:32:15 AM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: darkangel82

That’s what I was thinking. I don’t see 8 year olds thinking this up on their own.


30 posted on 02/08/2008 10:32:37 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
they left out identifying the "parents" at all ...

I'm betting that "heather" has two mommies.

31 posted on 02/08/2008 10:32:55 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: metmom
Born With the Wrong Body Transgender 10-Year-Old Girl and Her Family Talk to Barbara Walters
32 posted on 02/08/2008 10:33:12 AM PST by redrunner (A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. -- Aesop)
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To: redrunner

Oh PUKE!!!!!!


33 posted on 02/08/2008 10:33:45 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: redrunner
Schoolmates and their parents need help in becoming less uncomfortable with the child's looking different and being called by a different name, Thor said.

This is the problem. We need to stand up for our beliefs and morals and values and be able to say when we believe things are wrong.

What kind of parents does this child have? I am wondering if this child has a traditional heterosexual couple as parents.

34 posted on 02/08/2008 10:33:51 AM PST by It's me
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To: redrunner

I can call myself a Chinese redhead. It doesn’t make it so.


35 posted on 02/08/2008 10:33:55 AM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think you have your rines clossed.

entirely prossible....


36 posted on 02/08/2008 10:34:11 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: metmom
From the Bawbwa Wawa article:

"She has a birth defect, and we call it that. I can't think of a worse birth defect, as a woman to have, than to have a penis," Riley's mother, Stephanie, told Barbara Walters. "She talks about the day she'll have a baby. That's not in her future. But she sees herself as growing up to be a woman."

That's far worse than "Oh PUKE!!!!!!" Stephanie should be flogged.

37 posted on 02/08/2008 10:36:32 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: pandoraou812
Why do these issues have to be pushed on to children that are trying to lead normal lives?

It's simple, it's the domino effect, if one person is miserable then EVERYONE has to be miserable, I live in MA, we've had gay marriage forced down our throats and we also have some cities that are safe havens for ILLEGALS,,,,,,driving through some of these cities is like driving through a foreign country, but, I digress,,,,in schools if one child has an allergy to peanuts or perfume or whatever then the whole school suffers. In this case one child is mentally ill, the parents are enablers, therefore, EVERYONE suffers.

38 posted on 02/08/2008 10:36:38 AM PST by rockabyebaby (PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR INFIDEL STEPHENJOHNBANKER)
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To: redrunner

This kid’s parents need to shove him out the front door to play butcher ball with the neighborhood kids, get his butt kicked and then get up and give it back to them. He needs to get his testosterone and other androgens cranking.


39 posted on 02/08/2008 10:36:52 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
Did I miss something or did they leave out any comment by the parents? Seems strange that they did...

I thought the same thing. Then I got to thinking what kind of parent would even think to contact a group called "TransYouth Family Advocates?" Gut feelings tell me that 'junior' might have two mommies.

40 posted on 02/08/2008 10:37:09 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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